A great masterpiece. Korean tea bowl, Kyogen Hakamate. It is inscribed by Sen no Rikyu.
It is a cylindrical tea bowl with a standing shape, which resembles a scabbard over a tea mortar. The body is slightly bulging, the base is low and open to the outside, and the waist is ring-shaped with a double ring around the inside, with the center protruding slightly. The body is covered with a rat color glaze with a blackish tinge over a blue rat color, with a dipping pattern and two white stripes under the mouth. The four sides of the body have a circular pattern, and the waist has a blue ocean wave pattern with two white lines under it. It is a little deeper than ordinary cylindrical tea bowls and has an interesting pattern. Rikyu received it from Hideyoshi and used it at the Hyakukai tea ceremony, and later gave it to Hosokawa Sansai, whose grandson Hosokawa Higo-mori Mitsunao gave it to Hotta Kagamori as a bequest, and it was presented to the shogunate, whereupon Matsudaira Hugo-mori Kenkun received it and handed it down to his descendants, the Honjo-ya family, who were the lords of Hinokishaya Castle in Miyazu, Tango Province (Kyoto Prefecture). It was sold to the Osaka Yamada family during a bidding for tools in 1917. (Matsuya Fudoki, Komeimono Ki, Kokin Meimono Ruiju, Taisho Meikikan)
